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Into the Wild Cumulative Assessment: Documenting Your Journey/Integrated Project 2012
12th Grade Expository Reading and Writing
Background: Chris’s character: While there is much debate over McCandless’ character, mental health, and integrity, his sister Carine argues that “Chris knew exactly who he was. He was searching for a place in this world that he fit in to and where he could be true to himself. He was searching for truth, purity, honesty.“ In addition, Jon Krakauer admires McCandless because “He set such . . . impossibly high standards [for himself ]. It was his wonderful thing about him and his downfall, because he believed it’s wrong to get too comfortable in life; it’s wrong to take the easy path. You’re here to live, not to sit on the couch.” The Belt: In Chapter 6, Jon Krakauer describes the leather belt that Chris carved with Ron Franz. Krakauer writes: For his first project McCandless produced a tooled leather belt, on which he created an artful pictorial record of his wanderings. ALEX inscribed at the belt's left end; then the intials C.J.M. (for Christopher Johnson McCandless) frame a skull and crossbones. Across the strip of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-‐lane blacktop, a NO U-‐TURN sign, a thunderstorm producing a flash flood that engulfs a car, a hitchhiker's thumb, an eagle, the Sierra Nevada, salmon cavorting in the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Coast Highway from Oregon to Washington, the Rocky Mountains, Montana wheat fields, a South Dakota rattlesnake, Westerberg's house in Carthage, the Colorado River, a gale in the Gulf of California, a canoe beached beside a tent, Las Vegas, the initials T.C.D., Morro Bay, Astoria, and at the buckle end, finally, the letter N (presumably representing north). Assignment Overview: What are you in search of? What are your plans for the future? Where have you been? What has shaped you? What have you overcome? How do you view life? This is your opportunity to show your audience who you are. Assignment Directions: For this assignment, you will create an object that represents who you are and where you are going. You will present your creation that incorporates the following criteria as well as a powerpoint presentation that explains each of the following criteria: What you must document in your creation: You will now creatively document your own journey. Your creative project will reflect where you have been and where you are going. It must include the following: (1) your
philosophy of life, (2 )obstacles you have overcome, (3 obstacles you have yet to overcome, (4) a time in which you took a chance against others’ advice and the outcome was successful, (5)a time in which you went against others’ advice and the outcome was unsuccessful, (6)important relationships, (7) important influences, (8)your future education and career, (9) how you will achieve success in your chosen field, (10)and how your chosen field will enable you to contribute to the world. How you must document your journey: I want your creation to be visual adaptation. In other words, I do not want paragraphs. The visual adaptation may include illustrations, photographs, 3-‐dimensional objects, paintings, etc. No Pencil!!! The Creative Display Ideas: You can select any of the following choices to display your journey:
1. Diorama 2. Scrapbook 3. Quilt (can be made from construction paper) 4. A replica of something that symbolizes you, similar to Chris and his belt. You must be able to show all parts of your journey on this item. 5. Your Display Choice: please get approval from me first.
The Technology Component:
• Your visual aid needs to help guide your audience through these important experiences and future plans that are documented in your creative display.
The Presentation: Materials: Creative display Powerpoint, Prezi, etc. Content: For this presentation, you do not have to share all important events in your life with the class. However, the following items are required for the presentation: your philosophy, important influences, your future career, how you will achieve success in that field, how your chosen field will help contribute to the world, and any obstacles you have still have in your way. ****Remember, there is a minimum of 10 experiences you must document and you are not limited to just 10.